Good stuff Theo. My dad was a highway engineer and I can completely relate to your post. When things broke around the house (washer, dryer, hand drill, etc) Dad and I would take it apart and attempt to fix it. Many times we did fix the item (completely rebuilt a washer once) other times the broken item, in it's disassembled form was secreted away awaiting to arise as some other project in the future.

Accountants and Engineers share many of the same traits. Engineers however have the glory job. With the right design and application an engineer's name becomes a household name. We have had a president that was an engineer (Herbert Hoover), an engineer has walked on the moon (Neil Armstrong) everyone knows these names. And yet no one remembers the name of Neil's accountant that recommend the application of internal revenue code section 179 to save Neil $381 on his 1040.

JHAP
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